The world has been without Joe Strummer for a decade. The co-founder and lead singer of The Clash died Dec. 22, 2002, of an undiagnosed heart defect at just 50 years old. Yet even his most topical ...

Joe Strummer wasn’t Joe Strummer when I met him. That was in the late 1960s, in England. He was John Mellor, a thin-lipped, sarcastic prefect sitting in his study. The younger students had bi… ...

But then, neither do many (as the old-timer saying goes) kids today. In the documentary “Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten,” years after the band’s broken up and Strummer’s starting ...

Filmmaker Julien Temple went to great lengths to avoid anything even close to a cliche in making his documentary biography of his old friend Joe Strummer of the Clash, "Joe Strummer: The Future Is ...

Joe Stummer 002 is the second anthology volume drawn from his post-Clash work. Unlike Joe Strummer 001, released in 2018, which copiously chronicled the period from the mid-1980s, just after the ...

As such, songs like where Strummer sings that "I've got to hurry up before I grow too old." It's a painful reminder ... read Chris Salewicz' biography of Joe Strummer, "Redemption Song: The ...

Joe Strummer was born 60 years ago this summer, on 21 August 1952, in Ankara, Turkey. His father was a diplomat, and Joe spent his early childhood in Cairo, Bonn and Mexico City, soaking up ...

But what Julien Temple shows in his documentary “Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten” is neither a saint nor a sinner; he’s just a man who cared, sometimes too much, sometimes too little ...

Joe Strummer often spoke of reissuing the lone album from his mid-Seventies pre-Clash band, the 101ers.But the punk legend’s untimely death of a heart attack in 2002 gave the project a new ...

Joe Strummer's Life After Death The world has been ... of an undiagnosed heart defect at just 50 years old. Yet even his most topical songs continue to resonate. The band's biggest single ...